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i think bill clinton would be a significant asset for the president. in may clinton undercut the obama campaign's main argument that mitt romney's business experience does not qualify him to lead the country. >> a man who's been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold. >> reporter: and back in 2007 when hilary and barack obama went head to head. >> i mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the senate before he started running. >> reporter: in early twoit, obama won iowa. >> i'm here and he's not. >> i can't tell who i'm running against sometimes. >> fast forward four years, clinton gave one of the most rousing speeches in support of obama at the convention. >> i want to nominate a man who's cool on the out siside, b who burns for america on the inside. >> reporter: afterward, obama joked about giving the former president a role in his cabinet. somebody tweeted somebody needs to make him secretary of explaining things. although, they didn't use the word things. >>> mitt ro
i think bill clinton would be a significant asset for the president. in may clinton undercut the obama campaign's main argument that mitt romney's business experience does not qualify him to lead the country. >> a man who's been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold. >> reporter: and back in 2007 when hilary and barack obama went head to head. >> i mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the...
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. >>> happening now, is bill clinton going rogue? he's the most powerful campaign surrogate for president obama. the former president keeps straying from the party line. how is the obama campaign handling all of this? stand by. >>> they say mitt romney ran his state like a business. is that a good thing? we're talking to lawmakers who worked with romney when he was governor of massachusetts. >>> how pakistan's fight to end a crippling disease is being hurt on the raid on osama bin laden's compound. what's going on? >> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> as they should be, republicans are ecstatic over their victory in wisconsin where republican governor scott walker empress ofly survived a recall vote. democrats are on the defensive and president obama is taking heat for not going wisconsin to help his fellow democrats. what does all of this mean for november? let's go live to dana bash. she's in milwaukee right now and working on the fallout. dana, there's a lot of fallout. >> r
. >>> happening now, is bill clinton going rogue? he's the most powerful campaign surrogate for president obama. the former president keeps straying from the party line. how is the obama campaign handling all of this? stand by. >>> they say mitt romney ran his state like a business. is that a good thing? we're talking to lawmakers who worked with romney when he was governor of massachusetts. >>> how pakistan's fight to end a crippling disease is being hurt on the raid...
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and president obama will see president putin during the g-20 in mexico. >> clinton accuses moscow of continuing to supply helicopters that the assad regime is using to fire on its own people. the soviet union gave syria weapons. russia sells them weapons. but the russian foreign minister insists russia is simply fulfilling signed and paid contracts relating to air defense. russia does not supply weapons used to suppress peaceful protesters neither to syria nor elsewhere. which is not the case with the u.s. who regularly send police weaponry to the region. that's a reference to the u.s. supplying countries like bahrain, which have in recent years violently dispelled democracy protests. >> when we had concerns about how a new set of weapons might be used, we put a pause on our relationship with bahrain. >> as for supplying arms to the syrian opposition. >> the united states has provided no military support to the syrian opposition. none. >> but the assad regime is using a range of heavy weapons against its own people including tanks and heavy artillery with aid some say from russia. ac
and president obama will see president putin during the g-20 in mexico. >> clinton accuses moscow of continuing to supply helicopters that the assad regime is using to fire on its own people. the soviet union gave syria weapons. russia sells them weapons. but the russian foreign minister insists russia is simply fulfilling signed and paid contracts relating to air defense. russia does not supply weapons used to suppress peaceful protesters neither to syria nor elsewhere. which is not the...
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president clinton 14. the first president bush, once. ronald reagan did it three times. >> pretty significant difference. >> don't go away. we have a lot more to discuss. >> i'll be here. >> including political stuff as well. i have a lot more to talk about with congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz including what the democrats will do if the u.s. supreme court in the coming days were to strike down the president's health care law. >>> and a new report that the united states and israel joined forces on a covert cyber attack. we're learning details of a highly sophisticated computer virus aimed at crippling iran's nuclear program, a second cyber warfare attack. should israel be concerned iran will retaliate? my conversation with the deputy prime minister with that and what he calls a "genocide unfolding in syria right now" and the muslim brotherhood taking over the presidency in egypt. let's do this i am from baltimore south carolina... bloomington, california... austin, texas... we are all here to represent the country we love this is f
president clinton 14. the first president bush, once. ronald reagan did it three times. >> pretty significant difference. >> don't go away. we have a lot more to discuss. >> i'll be here. >> including political stuff as well. i have a lot more to talk about with congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz including what the democrats will do if the u.s. supreme court in the coming days were to strike down the president's health care law. >>> and a new report that the...
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bill clinton is on the air. republicans shouldn't underestimate the power of bill clinton. he doesn't have to do it with words. he doesn't have to say i love barack obama. he's great. he's terrific. just his presence is a huge gift for barack obama. >> she can't be here as a sitting secretary of state or a sitting secretary of defense or a sitting secretary of treasury, she can't be seen as overtly involved. she's in indonesia. >> probably glad to be there. >> some democrats are a little bit concerned. even as the so popular bill clinton could go off message and could say something to hurt the president, and do you think that's possible? >> you know, look, i live in a world, understand that anything is possible. i will be betting very heavily that he doesn't. and i'll be giving very good odds. i don't think he's going to do that at all. no reason to think that. i think he's excited about the speech. i think he's working hard on it. >> i would be very surprised if he did. i think he's going to stick to taxes. but there's a difference between barack obama and bill clinton. bi
bill clinton is on the air. republicans shouldn't underestimate the power of bill clinton. he doesn't have to do it with words. he doesn't have to say i love barack obama. he's great. he's terrific. just his presence is a huge gift for barack obama. >> she can't be here as a sitting secretary of state or a sitting secretary of defense or a sitting secretary of treasury, she can't be seen as overtly involved. she's in indonesia. >> probably glad to be there. >> some democrats...
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in addition to bill clinton. mitt romney is going to speak, barack obama is going to speak. not surprising that the president is going to be at the bill clinton event, but mitt romney a little intriguing. what's going on? >> well, again, as i was saying before, i think cgi, the clinton global initiative is a worldwide platform. and it's nonpolitical. it's nonpartisan. he's looking to do the most good around the world as possible. it doesn't have a political point of view. he's trying to leverage philanthropy to help people around the world. i think it's smart, frankly, for governor romney to go there. it shows that he's concerned about those issues. and as you mentioned, wolf, clinton's own personal popularity is so high. it probably wouldn't be bad to have clinton put his arm around his shoulder and have everybody see that. >> do you know what the format will be when the president attends the cgi conference and when the republican presidential nominee attends? is it just speeches? do you have any idea what the s
in addition to bill clinton. mitt romney is going to speak, barack obama is going to speak. not surprising that the president is going to be at the bill clinton event, but mitt romney a little intriguing. what's going on? >> well, again, as i was saying before, i think cgi, the clinton global initiative is a worldwide platform. and it's nonpolitical. it's nonpartisan. he's looking to do the most good around the world as possible. it doesn't have a political point of view. he's trying to...
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there's no one like bill clinton. and when it's like all hands on deck, that's the biggest hand of all is to put bill clinton out there. and they will use him whenever he's available. >> whenever they can. good point, candy. by campaign accounts, romney and president obama, they doept know each other very well, obviously. we're told they've actually only met face-to-face three times over all of these years. so here's the question, what role will that play in tonight's 90-minute debate? >> you know, i was saying about this in some ways i think it makes it easier to go after one another. if you know a person and you've gotten to, you know, see them and maybe chitchat and have some casual talk with them and kind of know them as a person, it becomes pretty difficult to be really aggressive going after them. i think certainly that's something that mitt romney has to do with some nuance to be sure because we are talking about the president of the united states and people are naturally protective of the president. so i think
there's no one like bill clinton. and when it's like all hands on deck, that's the biggest hand of all is to put bill clinton out there. and they will use him whenever he's available. >> whenever they can. good point, candy. by campaign accounts, romney and president obama, they doept know each other very well, obviously. we're told they've actually only met face-to-face three times over all of these years. so here's the question, what role will that play in tonight's 90-minute debate?...
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it became such a fraught issue for president clinton. on the comparison with kerry and romney, on the one hand it's very similar. two men of great wealth doing this sort of expensive water sports. the thing with kerry, that only became an issue when they used the wind surfing as an advertisement to get at this attack on kerry that he didn't have any core convictions and he was a flip-flopper. it was a devastating ad watching kerry go back and forth. just from the video you've shown, i don't know if that youtube clip of romney jet skiing quite has the same impact. you know, it might. there's obviously a line of attack that obama and democrats have been going after romney on as a man of wealth and someone who is out of touch with average americans. you know, to the extent that jet skiing on a lake at your expensive summer home plays into that. perhaps it's somewhat damaging for romney. but i don't know. i tend to think this is not a major problem for romney. >> yeah. i always thought let these guys -- they work hard, let them vacation wher
it became such a fraught issue for president clinton. on the comparison with kerry and romney, on the one hand it's very similar. two men of great wealth doing this sort of expensive water sports. the thing with kerry, that only became an issue when they used the wind surfing as an advertisement to get at this attack on kerry that he didn't have any core convictions and he was a flip-flopper. it was a devastating ad watching kerry go back and forth. just from the video you've shown, i don't...
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but hillary clinton also carried the state of new hampshire. the clinton brand from 1992 to 1996. the clinton brand is good in the state of new hampshire. at the moment, if you look at our electoral college projections, we have ohio, florida, new hampshire, toss up states where the former president might be able to help. >> and if the current president does carry florida and ohio, john, you studied this, is there a realistic road for mitt romney to win 270 ectoral votes? >> in a word, no. let me show you real quick. if the current president keeps florida blue, turns ohio blue. that would put him over the top based on current projections. if he wins those, governor romney would have to take something away, take away pennsylvania, take away michigan. hard to say if the president of the united states, if the democratic incumbent is winning ohio, hard to see him not winning michigan and pennsylvania. those two states alone would put him over the top. if governor romney won everything else, wouldn't be enough. >> what does it say to you that the romney campaign isn't spending money in
but hillary clinton also carried the state of new hampshire. the clinton brand from 1992 to 1996. the clinton brand is good in the state of new hampshire. at the moment, if you look at our electoral college projections, we have ohio, florida, new hampshire, toss up states where the former president might be able to help. >> and if the current president does carry florida and ohio, john, you studied this, is there a realistic road for mitt romney to win 270 ectoral votes? >> in a...
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you bet. >> donna, clinton had a little fun introducing the president at the clinton global initiative. listen to this. >> if you're an american citizen and you introduce the president, you're supposed to say the president of the united states and shut up. that's it. i just want to make one comment about this. i'm going to finish that speech i started in charlotte. >> he had a little fun at that as well. he spoke about 45 minutes in charlotte at that convention. how much does bill clinton with six weeks to go, donna, in this election campaign help president obama? >> you know, president clinton has the mightest touch. he understands this political theater i think better than most former politicians. someone in touch with the values of everyday working americans. one of the most admired politicians in the country. there's no question that bill clinton is going to be helpful not just to president obama but democrats up and down the ticket. he is in demand from all quarters of the country. and i just hope and pray that bill clinton will not only get out there every day over the next 40 so
you bet. >> donna, clinton had a little fun introducing the president at the clinton global initiative. listen to this. >> if you're an american citizen and you introduce the president, you're supposed to say the president of the united states and shut up. that's it. i just want to make one comment about this. i'm going to finish that speech i started in charlotte. >> he had a little fun at that as well. he spoke about 45 minutes in charlotte at that convention. how much does...
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>> well, look, relationships are fraught between president obama and netanyahu as they were between clinton and netanyahu. netanyahu and his view of the world and what it takes to make israel secure is closer to a neocon republican view of what it takes to achieve security for israel. i don't think the president wants there to be the sense of a complete and utter breach politically at least in the u.s. going into the election. nor in fact does he want that in practice. the underlying relationship is very solid. the immediate relationship between these two leaders clearly has differences. >> we'll speak in the next hour with the israeli ambassador to the united states. a dramatic moment indeed at the u.n. ron, thanks very much. >>> there's important news out today about jobs. and it may have pulled the rug out from under one of the republican's favorite attacks on president obama. standby. on every one of our cards there's a date. a reminder... that before this date, we have to exceed expectations. we have to find new ways to help make life easier, more convenient and more rewarding. it's th
>> well, look, relationships are fraught between president obama and netanyahu as they were between clinton and netanyahu. netanyahu and his view of the world and what it takes to make israel secure is closer to a neocon republican view of what it takes to achieve security for israel. i don't think the president wants there to be the sense of a complete and utter breach politically at least in the u.s. going into the election. nor in fact does he want that in practice. the underlying...
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latinos love bill clinton. african-americans love bill clinton. young people love bill clinton. he'll help with independence and working class voters. also on policy. bill clinton was basically the architect of the biggest economic expansion in a generation, and one of the reasons he did that was by implementing the same policies that president obama wants to do. >> here is a statement that the romney campaign put out. i'll read it to you this is from the romney campaign. after four years of trillion dollar deficits and anemic economic growth, it's clear president obama would love to run on president clinton's record in office, but no amount of showmanship can paper over the differences between these two presidents. america deserves a president willing to run on his own record, not the record he wishes he had. the question to you is what do you think about all of this? what do you think about bill clinton coming to the convention and really going to try to energize the democratic base to get president obama reelected? >> first of all, bill clinton is a very popular president. he
latinos love bill clinton. african-americans love bill clinton. young people love bill clinton. he'll help with independence and working class voters. also on policy. bill clinton was basically the architect of the biggest economic expansion in a generation, and one of the reasons he did that was by implementing the same policies that president obama wants to do. >> here is a statement that the romney campaign put out. i'll read it to you this is from the romney campaign. after four years...
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what did you think of hillary clinton's statement? >> well, first of all, wolf, you know, a tweet from erick erickson, you know, being the, you know, objective source that he is about this administration, doesn't make it true. now, the fact that secretary clinton said that she takes responsibility reflects what the president has said. we all take responsibility, from the president on down. whenever there's a diplomat's life at risk. whenever there's an american life at risk. but if you want to take responsibility, if you want to make sure that this never happens again, then you have the to do what the administration is doing. you have to investigate how it happened to ensure that it never happens again and you have to investigate and find the terrorists and bring them to justice. that's what the president, the vice president, secretary clinton, the entire national security team is doing. so i imagine this is going to be a topic tonight, and we look forward to having that discussion with mitt romney. >> i assume it's going to be a topi
what did you think of hillary clinton's statement? >> well, first of all, wolf, you know, a tweet from erick erickson, you know, being the, you know, objective source that he is about this administration, doesn't make it true. now, the fact that secretary clinton said that she takes responsibility reflects what the president has said. we all take responsibility, from the president on down. whenever there's a diplomat's life at risk. whenever there's an american life at risk. but if you...
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>> the president had a very somber press conference with secretary clinton. he's handled the tragedy for the past 24 hours and now he's moving on with his schedule. no one is suggesting that time should stop. but before the facts are known, and wolf said it quite well. governor romney made the statement last night and doubled down this morning, even knowing that the ambassador was killed. even knowing that remarks suggesting, claiming that the president of the united states somehow sympzeth th terrorists who attacked the ies,emsshat's where i believe aricans w say he crossed the line. >>'ll gi y one final thought. >> would just say it's sad that we'reg eged down in progress. parsing the difntthings governor romney said in the statement. here's a bigger question. do you think the president's policy in the middle east has been a success. looksike asa t americans. >> the pres policy in iraq has been quite successful. he's gotten us out of- >> wha abt iran? what about ia? at abt israel? you aed the question. let me answer it. implementedth stctest, most comphenss
>> the president had a very somber press conference with secretary clinton. he's handled the tragedy for the past 24 hours and now he's moving on with his schedule. no one is suggesting that time should stop. but before the facts are known, and wolf said it quite well. governor romney made the statement last night and doubled down this morning, even knowing that the ambassador was killed. even knowing that remarks suggesting, claiming that the president of the united states somehow...
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and anybody who remembers the bill clinton days and the bill clinton clinton know that is those taxes were not onerous. they didn't stop the economy from doing quite well. now, on the spending side, the president's proposing really no spending cuts until there is a grand bargain hopefully in january. but without any kind of a bargain at all before then, assuming we do go over the fiscal cliff, then there are going to be substantial cuts in military, contracting -- krirlt contract military contractors are going to feel it almost immediately. and the discretionary spending. that's everything the country does other than the military or social security or medicare. >> so i just want to get one thing straight about the tax rates. that is that the treasury department, if it senses that, yeah, they're going to get a deal here fairly quickly, could say -- can direct how much withholding employers have to take out of paychecks? is that correct? >> yes, that's right, candy. the irs, they're part of the treasury department, they do have authority, they do have discretion to alter those withholdi
and anybody who remembers the bill clinton days and the bill clinton clinton know that is those taxes were not onerous. they didn't stop the economy from doing quite well. now, on the spending side, the president's proposing really no spending cuts until there is a grand bargain hopefully in january. but without any kind of a bargain at all before then, assuming we do go over the fiscal cliff, then there are going to be substantial cuts in military, contracting -- krirlt contract military...
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bill clinton had two. but there could be a bunch in a hurry. justice ginsburg is the most likely to leave. and if president obama wins, that wouldn't change the balance of five republicans and four democrats. but if the five-to-four balance shifts, you could see dramatic dramatic changes in the court. it all depends on who >> do you simply assume president obama would name someone like sonja sot ma yor or clarence thomas for that matter? can you just assume those would be the possibilit probabilities if you will? >> that is precisely what i would assume. you know, there's a mythology about the court that presidents often areurprised by how their justices turn out. but you know, that is very much the exception rather than the rule. if you look at the justices currently on the court right now, every single one of them has turned out more or less as re there are individual cases, there are surprises. i certainly was surpred by roberts' vote in the affordable care act case. hatlarge presidents w you e is what you get. iden you wind up electing like
bill clinton had two. but there could be a bunch in a hurry. justice ginsburg is the most likely to leave. and if president obama wins, that wouldn't change the balance of five republicans and four democrats. but if the five-to-four balance shifts, you could see dramatic dramatic changes in the court. it all depends on who >> do you simply assume president obama would name someone like sonja sot ma yor or clarence thomas for that matter? can you just assume those would be the possibilit...
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i spent a lot of years working with president clinton. our rate was 39.6%. we had the greatest economic expansion in the history of our country 22 million new jobs. you got to bring in revenue. let's make sure the 98% of people, small businesses, 97% of the people affected are small business. they create jobs. my business with the help of the governor, we're going to have 1,000 employees by next year. we want to be a big business but we're working together in i bipartisan way. >> we remember that 39.6% tax rate during the clinton administration. economy was doing just fine then. >> governor, i want to bounce off something terry just said. you two are working together in the spirit of bipartisanship. listen to something that president obama said today. listen. >> the republicans say they don't want to raise taxes on the middle class. i don't want to raise taxes on the middle class. so we should all agree to extend the tax cuts for the middle class. let's greet to do what we agree on. >> seems logical. is this an area where republicans should take what you can
i spent a lot of years working with president clinton. our rate was 39.6%. we had the greatest economic expansion in the history of our country 22 million new jobs. you got to bring in revenue. let's make sure the 98% of people, small businesses, 97% of the people affected are small business. they create jobs. my business with the help of the governor, we're going to have 1,000 employees by next year. we want to be a big business but we're working together in i bipartisan way. >> we...
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his name was bill clinton. and it's interesting, when he first came into office, his economic plan asked the wealthier americans to play a little more so we could reduce our deficit and invest in the skills and ideas of our people. and at the time, the republican congress and a certain senate candidate by the name of mitt romney -- [ crowd booing ] don't boo, vote. vote. you don't need to boo. folks can't hear you boo, but they can hear you vote. anyway, this candidate, mr. romney, along with the republican congress, they all said, bill clinton's playing us terrible. it will hurt the economy. it's going to kill jobs. turns out, their math was just as bad then as it is now because by the end of bill clinton's second term, america has created 23 million new jobs. incomes were up, poverty was down and our deficit had become a surplus. we've tried our ideas and they work. how about the other guy's ideas? we tried those, too. after bill clinton left office, the republicans had a chance to try their ideas out. and we
his name was bill clinton. and it's interesting, when he first came into office, his economic plan asked the wealthier americans to play a little more so we could reduce our deficit and invest in the skills and ideas of our people. and at the time, the republican congress and a certain senate candidate by the name of mitt romney -- [ crowd booing ] don't boo, vote. vote. you don't need to boo. folks can't hear you boo, but they can hear you vote. anyway, this candidate, mr. romney, along with...
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did he specify the 39.6% rate of the clinton years? he did not. so is there a little give ultimately to sort of say what if it doesn't go up to 39.6%, but say 37%, is that something the white house would accept? also, this that same interview, the president raised the possibility, which is that after you do tax reform and you close loopholes and deductions, that if the rate is raised, the top rate, there's always a possibility that after you do tax reform, of course, the top rate would then go down again. so it was -- you have to listen to the president very carefully to see where there might be some give. the problem from my point of view is that everybody knows what's got to be done in the long-term. it's the question of the short-term deal. >> john boehner, speaker of the house, he came up with a proposal. but not all the conservatives in the house and the senate are on board. jim demint, republican senator from south carolina. >> this is a time to negotiate with ourselves. we need to invite the president to work with us. his proposal was so ou
did he specify the 39.6% rate of the clinton years? he did not. so is there a little give ultimately to sort of say what if it doesn't go up to 39.6%, but say 37%, is that something the white house would accept? also, this that same interview, the president raised the possibility, which is that after you do tax reform and you close loopholes and deductions, that if the rate is raised, the top rate, there's always a possibility that after you do tax reform, of course, the top rate would then go...
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. >> how about bill clinton? >> all right. you got me on that. >> but i think that the format is going to work for the president, and i think that when mitt romney has to face people who are saying, wait a second, what about us? i'm not sure he's going to be so successful there. >> i think one of the president's strengths is that he answers questions directly when he's one-on-one with people. and i think that's actually going to come through in this format. and i think you're right, hillary, this format really does play to the president's strengths in terms of his ability to connect and have a relationship. >> but he hasn't done a lot of town halls. mitt romney's been out there doing town halls, it's not his natural habitat either. >> the town halls the president has been doing are with his supporters. he is going in front of friendly crowds and answering friendly questions. and i think what americans saw was a president uncomfortable being challenged. and that's going to be a challenge for him. >> and his real strength, i mea
. >> how about bill clinton? >> all right. you got me on that. >> but i think that the format is going to work for the president, and i think that when mitt romney has to face people who are saying, wait a second, what about us? i'm not sure he's going to be so successful there. >> i think one of the president's strengths is that he answers questions directly when he's one-on-one with people. and i think that's actually going to come through in this format. and i think...
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secretary of state hillary clinton packs a lot into a day on the road. in hanoi, vietnam, she visited foreign ministry, foreign trade ministry, prime minister, secretary ruling communist party then made remarks to the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> and i've been talking all day. so excuse me. >> reporter: that's when the trip caught up with her. >> so we've come a long way in a short period of time. and that is -- excuse me. what economic state is all about. so we want to hear from all of you about what more we can do together. and at the risk of coughing any longer, i just want to say thank you and let's get to work. >> reporter: her coughing fit forced her to cut short her speech. the state department said she's in excellent health and doing just fine. but the journey struck fear in the hearts of seasoned journalists who have to keep up with her. clinton's almost two-week trip is a mile busting marathon and it's taking its toll. flying from washington, d.c. to paris for a conference on syria then to afghanistan. and tokyo for a conference on afghan recon
secretary of state hillary clinton packs a lot into a day on the road. in hanoi, vietnam, she visited foreign ministry, foreign trade ministry, prime minister, secretary ruling communist party then made remarks to the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> and i've been talking all day. so excuse me. >> reporter: that's when the trip caught up with her. >> so we've come a long way in a short period of time. and that is -- excuse me. what economic state is all about. so we want to hear...
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you know how high hillary clinton pulls, often higher than president obama himself. doesn't this potentially hurt the president in his campaign to remind voters that really brutal battle they had in '08. >> as you know, i worked on that campaign and i was working for hillary whether he she made those comments. the packet is that hillary clinton and barack obama agree on 99.99% of issues and everybody knows, every single american knows she, would with barack obama to advance america's interest. >> she said in 2008, and i remember, shame on you, barack obama the direct -- that was a direct quote. so shame on you, barack obama. the romney folks are using that. that's a pretty powerful ad. >> i disagree. the fact is people know she stands with president obama. she, would in the cabinet but also on economic issues. hillary's been a fighter for the middle class for decades and stands with him on those issues. there are disagreements were significant but they pale in comparison to the differences between both clintons and mitt romney as well as barack obama. >> you know pol
you know how high hillary clinton pulls, often higher than president obama himself. doesn't this potentially hurt the president in his campaign to remind voters that really brutal battle they had in '08. >> as you know, i worked on that campaign and i was working for hillary whether he she made those comments. the packet is that hillary clinton and barack obama agree on 99.99% of issues and everybody knows, every single american knows she, would with barack obama to advance america's...
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and this evening here in new york secretary of state hillary clinton will meet with the israeli prime minister. >> love to be a fly on the wall in that meeting. also like to be eavesdropping on that phone call tomorrow between the prime minister and the president. jill, thanks very, very much. let's bring in the israeli ambassador to the united states. ambassador michael oren joining us from new york. he's been spending all this time with the prime minister. mr. ambassador, thanks for coming in. >> always good to be with you, wolf. >> clearly israelis, your prime minister, has literally drawn a red line. by implication it suggests that's not necessarily enough. you need the united states to draw that same red line if the iranians are going to back down. and you haven't heard the obama administration do that yet. is that the issue right now? >> well, as the prime minister said to the general assembly today, wolf, the drawing of the red line is designed to give diplomacy and sanctions more time to work. we believe by drawing that red line you won't be increasing the chances of military
and this evening here in new york secretary of state hillary clinton will meet with the israeli prime minister. >> love to be a fly on the wall in that meeting. also like to be eavesdropping on that phone call tomorrow between the prime minister and the president. jill, thanks very, very much. let's bring in the israeli ambassador to the united states. ambassador michael oren joining us from new york. he's been spending all this time with the prime minister. mr. ambassador, thanks for...
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bill clinton stumping for president obama while george w. bush staying out of the public eye right now. some say he's still haunting though mitt romney. let's discuss what's going on in our strategy session. joining us the democratic strategist and the principal at the raven group, jamal simmons and editor of redstate,.com, erick, erickson. i was intrigued by a review, i'll put it up on the screen "mitt romney has a george w. bush problem. in fact, that's mitt romney's biggest problem. it's george w. bush, not barack obama who has made voters skeptical of policies. it's not obama campaign strategist david plouffe who persuaded voters that our economic troubles aren't mainly obama's fault. and so it is in a sense, the electorate's lingering fear of george w. bush as much as it is residual affection for barack obama that romney needs to beat if he's to become president. what do you think of that analysis? >> i think ezra is a political columnist trying to drag bush back into this thing. i think it's a given in 2010 you saw tea party activists
bill clinton stumping for president obama while george w. bush staying out of the public eye right now. some say he's still haunting though mitt romney. let's discuss what's going on in our strategy session. joining us the democratic strategist and the principal at the raven group, jamal simmons and editor of redstate,.com, erick, erickson. i was intrigued by a review, i'll put it up on the screen "mitt romney has a george w. bush problem. in fact, that's mitt romney's biggest problem....
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the president's surrogate, bill clinton is on his way there as well. >> essentially what president obama is saying, look at me, i work with the republicans, i worked with governor christie in new jersey. >> he promised bipartisan saying he will pass what he called the down payment on fiscal sanity act which will cut nondefense spending by 5%. president obama says he has forgotten his mandate to become a post partisan leader. >> we asked them, and you, to look beyond the speeches, the attacks, and the ads, look to the record. >> romney is trying to pull out all of the stops before the election after kidrock played at his last event, and now he heads back east again for the final three days before the voter goes to the polls. wolf and kate? >> we also have new poll numbers from the critical battleground state of ohio. take a look at this, president obama has a narrow lead in this state, 50% to romney's 47%, that's within the sampling error making it essentially a dead heat. we have our political analysts here to join in. what stands out to you, gloria, from this latest poll? >> i was looki
the president's surrogate, bill clinton is on his way there as well. >> essentially what president obama is saying, look at me, i work with the republicans, i worked with governor christie in new jersey. >> he promised bipartisan saying he will pass what he called the down payment on fiscal sanity act which will cut nondefense spending by 5%. president obama says he has forgotten his mandate to become a post partisan leader. >> we asked them, and you, to look beyond the...
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he might have hillary clinton to contend with. who can forget last month when she was asked by marie clare magazine if she was running for president. her answer, no, i'm not. you see that. she didn't say, i will not. no, that i am not. clearly, leaving the door wide open. she might as well started printing bumper stickers. even her husband practically announced her intentions. >> i have no earthly idea what she'll decide to do. >> reporter: how about other democrats? keep an eye on martin o'malley of maryland. it's not hard since he keeps turning up on this show, this one and this one. and republicans, paul ryan already ran for president once, according to mitt romney. >> join me in welcoming the next president of the united states, paul ryan. >> reporter: we learned today that florida's marco rubio will coincidentally be highlighting a party and don't be surprised if you see bobby jindal take a ski trip to new hampshire. and, of course, there are others. so many others. it's never too early to dream. there are still a great many
he might have hillary clinton to contend with. who can forget last month when she was asked by marie clare magazine if she was running for president. her answer, no, i'm not. you see that. she didn't say, i will not. no, that i am not. clearly, leaving the door wide open. she might as well started printing bumper stickers. even her husband practically announced her intentions. >> i have no earthly idea what she'll decide to do. >> reporter: how about other democrats? keep an eye on...
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this all started sort of 1994, bill clinton passed the assault weapons ban. he really went to the mat on that and passed it. then you saw in polling numbers of people that want to protect gun rights really started going up, because people started being afraid. now you look at what's going on, you see the obama administration afraid of losing rural voters, afraid of losing blue collar voters, afraid of losing independent voters, afraid of losing voters that are anti-big government. i would make the case they probably didn't have a lot of those voters anyway. they don't want to risk losing independents. >> you heard from democrats on the hill today, they said they're waiting for the silent majority to speak up to make congress act. >> they're waiting for somebody else to have the courage to do what they don't have the courage to do. part of it is timidity on behalf of democrats that support gun control, don't want to say so, don't want to risk rural voters. al gore lot of people say lost tennessee, west virginia. i give you a half dozen reason the president of
this all started sort of 1994, bill clinton passed the assault weapons ban. he really went to the mat on that and passed it. then you saw in polling numbers of people that want to protect gun rights really started going up, because people started being afraid. now you look at what's going on, you see the obama administration afraid of losing rural voters, afraid of losing blue collar voters, afraid of losing independent voters, afraid of losing voters that are anti-big government. i would make...
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he feels their pain, as bill clinton would say. take a look at this on a pew poll that just came out today, which candidate connects well with ordinary americans? i mean about three-to-one, wolf, obama versus romney. you see that there. and of course after mitt romney's 47% remark, now infamous. that doesn't help him with middle class voters believing he understands their problems or understands the issue of government dependency or victimization. so two bad numbers for mitt romney. >> any good numbers that you're seeing in any of these polls? >> there are. >> for romney i'm talking about. >> there are. and, again, it's in "the wall street journal" poll. the question was asked of voters who are the most interested in this election, theysked them, who will you vote for for president? take a look at this. among most interested voters 49% to 46%. so what the romney campaign is hoping that the people who are the most interested, wolf, will translate into the most enthusiastic voters because an advantage in turnout of one, two or three
he feels their pain, as bill clinton would say. take a look at this on a pew poll that just came out today, which candidate connects well with ordinary americans? i mean about three-to-one, wolf, obama versus romney. you see that there. and of course after mitt romney's 47% remark, now infamous. that doesn't help him with middle class voters believing he understands their problems or understands the issue of government dependency or victimization. so two bad numbers for mitt romney. >>...